Such brilliant news. Our friends at QFT have created a beautiful space but more than that, the programming is outstanding as is their willingness to explore using the cinema is different ways.
A true treasure.
Our abortion laws and policies, are still forcing people dealing with Fetal Fatal Abnormalities to travel to the UK for healthcare which should be provided for here with compassion.
#TMFRIE #FreeSafeLegal #Repealedthe8th #Spéirgorm
Obvious ai manipulation on the left. Original photo by David Batcheller on the right. Look at the wings, feather shape, head, neck and bill shape, lack of tail etc. This is way more than a filter and absolutely destroys the joy and wonder of the original.
So loads of people are sharing an obvious ai "glow up" of an actual photo. I never share ai stuff even to dunk, but in this case I'm sharing a comparison to show the problem. We have to stand against this slop at every level or it becomes normalised. They want us to stop caring. See alt text.
Just more evidence that the UKs “first past the post” voting system does not reflect the diversity of our politics. Time for a change
If I were Labour, I'd be using the cushion provided by having 400+ MPs to race to implement PR in time for the 2029 GE.
It could literally be the party's last ever chance to participate meaningfully in UK politics if they don't shake the electoral system up.
"A Reform UK council deputy leader [Darren Grimes, Durham County Council] has been caught using a fake AI-generated photograph to stoke tensions over housing and migration, exposing the shameless tactics deployed by politicians willing to deceive their own constituents"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Lisnacrogher Sword Plates from Antrim. Copper alloy front plate of scabbards. The front plate terminates in a cast copper alloy chape. The surface is decorated with incised symmetrical curvilinear decoration in the La Tène style
These beautifully decorated bronze scabbard plates were part of an important hoard of Iron Age objects found in a bog at Lisnacrogher near Ballymena, Antrim, in the 19th century.
You can see them in the brilliant Ulster Museum, Belfast.
Historian Kevin Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) got irked about Musk banging on about how our multicultural society is a Bad Thing, and consequently wrote this screamingly fantastic little gem. Provides badly needed perspective especially for folks who don't know much about the US decades ago.
Yes. The media needs to do much more
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Who TF is working in the advertising regulator? Buying a house is hard around without this BS.
Also any Irishman who calls his podcast “Cheeky Pints”, should have his nationality stripped and sent to Coventry.
Like not metaphorically, I mean, literally, exiled to the city of Coventry. To live out the rest of their miserable days in Wetherspoons and Nandos where they belong.
The Olympic Games should not be behind a paywall, even if the paywall is low.
That's INCREDIBLY fucked up. Calling abolition of slavery a "political" position implies that it is a debateable policy choice.
That @petergeoghegan.bsky.social is onto something here and he's not letting go of it open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
But… but is there *ANY* way this could be a woman’s fault…?
he needs to go to school...
actually as ‘public officials’ you have a legal and constitutional duty to be completely secular
this in a country where the government is deprioritising climate action
The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters.
#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history
Worth a read, excoriating.
Dreadful. I hope anyone with information comes forward. We are better than this.
Broughshane: Attack on house treated as race hate crime - BBC News
An X post by Lucy (@LucyisjustLucy) with the caption “Their Hulk” over a photo of Hulk Hogan yelling at a podium in red gear, and “My Hulk” over a photo of Mark Ruffalo in a white tux doing a peace sign (a joke contrasting the two “Hulks”).
Perfectly noted.
Link to report the stolen tartan design to Trust Pilot
www.trustpilot.com/review/kilta...
A magazine/catalogue named "Men in Belted Sweaters", sporting six photos of - you guessed it - men in belted sweaters, in different styles and colours, all of them utterly, bafflingly awful. If you are visually impaired you should, on this occasion, consider yourself blessed.
When people say they want to go back to a time "when men were men", I point them to Issue 2528 of the "Men in Belted Sweaters" catalogue.
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Small colourful finds from my garden today, 30.12.25 in a deep cobalt blue ridged Victorian ink bottle
Tiny posy from the garden in a cobalt blue Victorian jelly ink bottle, December 30th 2025
I'm alive because of regular platelet donors like these. There are only 2,000 donors in Ireland, and platelets are vital for neo-natal units, cancer treatment and post-surgery.
As 2026 resolutions go, becoming a donor is a good one. More info at giveblood.ie/platelets
www.rte.ie/news/2025/12...
Shortly after the NHS was created in 1948, it led to a recruitment campaign to attract Irish students to train and work as nurses. By 1971, they made up around 12% of all nursing staff in the NHS.
Explore the stories of some of those nurses in our magazine feature ⬇️
